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Scissor Practice - Paper Cutting Box
It was Pinspired by this Pin from my Preschool Fun Pinterest Board.
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- Erica said...
What a fun and inviting box of paper. I am sure it would be well-loved at our house too!
- June 18, 2012 at 9:23 AM
- pink and green mama MaryLea said...
I highly recommend it Erica!
- June 18, 2012 at 11:11 AM
- Chrissy Leiberan-Titus said...
That looks lovely MaryLea! I love the bright colors. We're also going to stick to a somewhat "school-like" schedule this summer. Lil' Miss calls it "Cool Camp". We'll have some fun centers like this too- when I taught preschool I used them and I called them Port-a-centers. LOL. Very similar idea! Love it! Thank you for sharing!
- June 18, 2012 at 12:44 PM
- pink and green mama MaryLea said...
That sounds like fun Chrissy -- and I love the way your daughter calls it "cool camp"! : ) The girls and I made a trip to the craft store today to stock up on a few "essentials" for "mom camp"
: ) - MaryLea
- June 18, 2012 at 2:39 PM
- Amy said...
I love this box! popping into the pound shop as I know they have one like this. My daughter will love it and we can use the cut up pieces for crafts. Thanks :)
- June 18, 2012 at 6:54 PM
- aneverydaystory said...
Lovely MaryLea.
My little guy loves 'snipping' and so does my 14month old! This is a great idea for having his scissors out but out of the reach of his little sister. I think I even have one of these containers. Going to make one today.
- June 19, 2012 at 1:10 AM
- pink and green mama MaryLea said...
That's a great idea Kate, I didn't even think about the keeping it away from younger siblings idea! : )
- June 20, 2012 at 8:06 AM
- Jackie H. said...
This is such a great idea. We have a younger brother who doesn't need scissors but it means my four year old has had very little time for scissor practice because I keep them up high on a shelf! This will be the perfect solution!!
- June 25, 2012 at 3:01 PM
- pink and green mama MaryLea said...
That sounds perfect Jackie!!
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The Poxviridae family includes some of the largest DNA viruses known. While variola (the causative agent of smallpox) remains the most deadly member of the family, several other members, including monkeypox, tanapox, cowpox, vaccinia, Yaba-like disease virus and molluscum contagiosum, are capable of causing disease in humans. Orthopoxviruses, which include variola, monkeypox and vaccinia, have a double stranded genome of about 200 kb and are predicted to encode for approximately 200 functional open reading frames making them some the most complex animal viruses known. This complexity is best demonstrated during viral morphogenesis that results in a virion that is predicted to incorporate approximately 100 viral polypeptides and several morphologically distinct forms.
Viral replication occurs entirely in the cytoplasm in discrete areas know as viral factories and results in the first infectious form termed intracellular mature virions (IMV). A subset of IMV receives an extra double membrane wrapping derived from the trans-Golgi or endosomal cisternae and are referred to as intracellular enveloped virions (IEV). After wrapping, IEV are transported via microtubules to the cell periphery where the outer membrane of the IEV fuses with the plasma membrane depositing one of the newly acquired membranes into the plasma membrane and releasing the enveloped virion from the cell. Many enveloped virions remain attached to the plasma membrane and are termed cell-associated-virus (CEV). Viral proteins deposited into the plasma membrane, by the fusion of IEV at the plasma membrane, direct the polymerization of actin on the cytosolic side forming what are called actin tails, which serve to propel CEV away from the cell and towards adjacent cells. CEV released from the plasma membrane are termed extracellular enveloped virus (EEV). IEV, CEV and EEV make up the enveloped form of vaccinia virus and IMV are considered unenveloped. While IMV represents the majority of progeny virions they are not released from the cell making the enveloped form responsible for cell-to-cell spread. Presently only seven viral proteins have been found to be specific to the enveloped form, and of these seven only six have been shown to be required for efficient envelope virus production. The major focus of my laboratory is the study of poxvirus morphogenesis, emphasizing the intracellular envelopment process. We employ molecular virological techniques along with state of the art live video microscopy and cell biology to study viral egress with the goal of understanding the molecular mechanism employed by poxviruses to produce intracellular enveloped virions. Furthermore, our research should provide insight into such cellular processes as protein trafficking, membrane and vesicle formation and intracellular trafficking.
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Fig. 4. HeLa cells were infected with the virus designated in the text. The following day, B5-GFP was imaged in live cells using time-lapse fluorescent microscopy. Images were collected at 1 frame/sec and are played back here at 10 frames/sec. The first two arrows in the sequence depict virions trafficking away from the site of wrapping. The diagonal set of connected arrows points to the virion movement depicted in Figure 4 of the text. The final set of bracketed arrows shows a virion that displays both anterior and retrograde movement. Also depicted are the site of wrapping (SW) and the nucleus (N).
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Mundine announced last week his first fight in the United States against former World Boxing Organisation (WBO) light-middleweight champion Bronco McKart in Las Vegas on July 14.
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''It's probably a novelty fight for him between McKart and whatever else he's got in the pipeline in the States, but for me it's an opportunity,'' Bennett said.
''He gets a hundred offers a day but it makes sense for him to take this fight because he's fought in Newcastle before, and it would be a good pay-day for him because we'd get 6000 into Newcastle Entertainment Centre and pack the joint out.
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Since this is National Pollinator Week, you're probably out celebrating the bees--maybe doing hand stands, cartwheels and pirouettes.
But have you ever thought about beetles as pollinators? They are.
We spotted this little critter on a California golden poppy at the Sonoma Mission in Sonoma, Calif. Native pollinator specialist Robbin Thorp, emeritus professor of entomology at UC Davis, knew what it was immediately, even though through all the pollen.
It's a melyrid beetle, a flightless beetle. Some species found elsewhere in the world are loaded with poison and are eaten by poison-dart frogs and passerine birds, including the pitohui. Scientists writing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) say these frogs and birds derive their poison from melyrid beetles and if they don't eat enough of them, they lose their toxicity. Indeed, there's a golden poison-dart frog that carries enough venom to kill 10 people, according to National Geographic.
If you want to know what this melyrid beetle looks like when it's not wearing its coat of many pollen grains, check out this photo by Peter Bryant of UC Irvine and another photo by Thomas Roach of Lincoln, Calif., an insect photographer and a frequent visitor to the Bohart Museum of Entomology on the UC Davis campus.
Melyrid beetle (Endeodes insularis) on a poppy petal. (Photo y Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Have you hugged your favorite pollinator today?
It's National Pollinator Week, and you're allowed to do that this week. Actually, any time you feel the inclination.
Honey bees, bumble bees, wool carder bees, leafcutter bees, sweat bees--they're all out there, ready for a hug.
'Course, they may misinterpret your actions.
This is the fifth annual Pollinator Week, when we pay tribute to bees, birds, butterflies, bats and beetles--and flies, too. Don't forget the flies. And all the other pollinators out there.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is encouraging us to celebrate pollinators June 20-26. Perhaps what we should do, along with celebrating them, is vow to save them.
Female wool carder bee (Anthidium manicatum) heads for lupine at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility, UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Honey bee (Apis mellifera) sips nectar from a marguerite daisy. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Metallic green sweat bee (Agapostemon texanus) foraging on a coneflower. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Yellow-faced bumble bee (Bombus vosnesenskii) nectaring a coneflower. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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You'll be hearing more about the CP2C.
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The first-ever Congressional Pollinator Protection Caucus.
In keeping with 4th Annual National Pollinator Week, June 21-27, the Pollinator Partnership announced today that both parties of the U.S. House of Representatives have agreed to form the first Congressional Pollinator Protection Caucus (CP2C). Co-chairs are Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-FL) and Rep. Tim Johnson (R-IL).
Hastings and Johnson said they will be sending a "Dear Colleague" letter to fellow members of Congress to encourage their participation in the caucus.
As Hastings so accurately stated: "With one out of every third bite of food we humans consume dependent on bees and other animals for their pollination services, legislators need accurate information to help inform their positions."
"The caucus," Johnson added, "will seek out the best of pollinator science, economics and best practices."
Said Laurie Davies Adams, executive director of the Pollinator Partnership (P2): "This bi-partisan effort aims to support legislators' understanding of the needs of their constituents with respect to pollinators, and we salute their cooperative drive to ensure that this issue gets the attention it deserves."
Kudos to Hastings, Johnson and the Pollinator Partnership.
Meanwhile, in conjunction with the CP2C launch, the Pollinator Partnership will host a briefing for members of Congress, staff, and the public on Thursday, June 24 at 3:30 p.m, at Longworth House Office Building, Room 1302.
Häagen-Dazs ice cream and Burt's Bees will provide ice cream and lip balm for attendees. Häagen-Dazs, a strong supporter of UC Davis honey bee research at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility, is committed to strengthening the health of the honey bees. (On Sept. 11, the public will celebrate the grand opening of the Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven, a bee friendly garden planted last fall next to the Laidlaw facility.)
Burt's Bees is also a strong pollinator-supportive business.
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You see them stopping on flowers for a sip of nectar, and in their travels from one flower to the other, they can--and do--transfer pollen.
Blow flies, though, aren't exactly what the organizers of National Pollinator Week had in mind when they set aside June 21-27 to celebrate the pollinators.
The U. S. Forest Service says that "of the 1,400 crop plants grown around the world, i.e., those that produce all of our food and plant-based industrial products, almost 80% require pollination by animals. Visits from bees and other pollinators also result in larger, more flavorful fruits and higher crop yields. In the United States alone, pollination of agricultural crops is valued at $10 billion annually. Globally, pollination services are likely worth more than $3 trillion."
So, when we talk about "the birds and the bees and the flowers and the trees," we ought to include an occasional blow fly from the order Diptera and family Calliphoridae.
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It's not too early to start thinking about NPW.
NPW? National Pollinator Week.
They are a key to our global sustainability and food supply. Eighty-percent of the world's crops depend on pollination. Honey bees pollinate about one-third of the food we eat.
Worldwide, we have about 20,000 species of bees, according to native pollinator specialist Robbin Thorp, emeritus professor of entomology at UC Davis. And California alone, he says, has more than 1600 species. Bees include sweat bees, digger bees, leafcutting bees, bumble bees, and scores of others.
Want to know what to plant in your garden to attract bees and other pollinators? Good sites to read are UC Berkeley's Urban Bee Gardens Web site and the Xerces Society Web site.
Meanwhile, almond blossoms are in full bloom in California. At the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility at UC Davis, an almond tree near the apiary is a burst of blossoms and a flash of aromatic fury.
Walk by the tree and you'll see pollen-packing honey bees buzzing around like there's no tomorrow.
We must ensure there will be a tomorrow.
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Hobby Lobby's owners, the Green family of Oklahoma City, Okla., object to an Obamacare mandate that employers provide health insurance plans that include emergency contraception, which Hobby Lobby ownership considers abortifacients. (For the record, research from both the Mayo Clinic and the National Institutes of Health say that's not the case.)
Hobby Lobby and its attorneys will argue before the Supreme Court that the birth-control mandate violates its religious beliefs. The question is: Can a corporation, in this case one that operates approximately 500 stores and employs 13,000 people, dictate employees' health choices on religious grounds?
Arguing on behalf of Hobby Lobby's ownership in a 2012 interview with National Review, Kyle Duncan, general counsel of the Becket Fund, said, "If a Hobby Lobby employee wants to use such drugs, no one — certainly not the Green family — will do a thing to stop them. There is no shortage of contraceptives in America today, and the government already spends billions a year to make sure they are accessible to anyone who wants them. All the Greens want is not to be forced to pay for abortion drugs."
We're back to one of the great challenges of reforming the U.S. health-care system. In the middle of the 20th century, the United States developed an employer-based system for providing coverage to Americans. It was conceived as the best way to avoid the single-payer systems that were developing across other industrialized nations in the post-World War II era.
Untangling from that employer-based system continues to be one of the many complications in implementing the Affordable Care Act.
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Ong Kim Swee believes his Harimau Muda side are still favourites for a top-three finish in the Great Eastern-YEO's S.League despite Monday's 0-0 draw at Hougang United.
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The Young Tigers entered the game at the Hougang Stadium looking to leapfrog third-placed Albirex Niigata, but they struggled to find a way past an inspired Fadhil Salim, who made a serious of outstanding saves.
While the result was enough to see Harimau move ahead of the White Swans into third place on goal difference, they have a tricky tie against title-chasing Tampines Rovers on Friday while their Japanese rivals have an arguably simpler game against 9th-placed Gombak United.
Nonetheless, Ong refused to be overly critical of his charges' failure to convert against the Cheetahs, and believes the point earned could still be crucial in the race for a top-three finish.
"We have to accept that not all games go our way," he said. "Games like tonight [Monday] happen, where we dominated and had many chances but didn't convert.
"Hougang had a good strategy and were well-organised, plus the keeper made a number of point-blank range saves to deny [Ahmad] Hazwan and [D.] Saarvindran.
"Still, one point is better than nothing and we can still fight for a top-three finish."
Harimau head into Friday's game without a host of key players, including Mahalli Jasuli, Fadhli Shas, Gary Robbat and Wan Zack Haikal, who are all on international duty with Malaysia in preparation for November's AFF Suzuki Cup.


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With stock prices in flux and bond prices falling, some investors are seeking shelter in the booming housing market. But that may be a losing proposition, according to two researchers at the Atlanta Fed.
After plunging 33 percent since 2006, home prices have yet to return to their peak that year. Those deep discounts have helped boost the appeal of investing in single-family homes.
Last year, investment sage Warren Buffet told CNBC he would buy up "a couple hundred thousand" single-family homes if it were practical to do so. Since then, as single-family home prices have jumped 12 percent, many investors have done just that.
Real estate may look like great place to stash a nest egg for the long term. But unfortunately that's not what the two Atlanta Fed researchers, Ellyn Terry and Jessica Dill, found when they crunched the numbers back to 1926.
Their results show that—based on the 13-year average length of homeownership—a home rarely returns more than the S&P 500 stock index.
"If a home is purchased only as an investment and not as a place to live, this comparison of average annual returns clearly shows that investing in equities offers favorable returns more often than investing in housing," the researchers said.
Still, much of the increased demand for single-family homes has come from hedge funds and other investment pools created to cash in on the ongoing housing recovery. Smaller investors also have been snapping up houses and renting them out, sparking bidding wars in some areas.
As interest rates have begun creeping up, meanwhile, some investors have cooled to other types of assets. That includes the traditional safe haven of Treasury bonds—which fall in value as rates rise. With the Federal Reserve signaling its intention to soon end its five-year policy of suppressing borrowing costs, an ongoing rise in rates will continue to throw cold water on bond prices.
That shift in the Fed's interest rate policy is also giving pause to stock market investors, who fear the coming "tapering" of the central bank's five-year, $2 trillion economic stimulus could spell an end to the 20 percent run-up in stock prices over the last 12 months.
Some investors say they've even begun seeing signs of a major stock market crash on the horizon, based on the ratio of stocks hitting new 52-week highs to those hitting new yearly lows.
(Read more: 'Hindenburg Omen' hovering over Wall Street again)
Investing in commodities—another traditional alternative—is looking even less appealing. Gold prices are down nearly 20 percent since their October 2012 peak of nearly $1,800 an ounce—and still falling.
The comparison shows that returns on stocks tended to be more volatile than houses. But the volatility tended to be dampened over longer holding periods. And the returns were clearly higher: The average annual return for stocks was 4.55 percent compared to just 0.97 percent for home prices.
To be sure, homeowners still come out ahead in two important ways. The study looked only at the investment return from buying a house; the calculations didn't take into account the money a homeowner saves by not paying rent.
Nor did it take into account the tax deduction on mortgage interest. When those two variables are accounted for, the researchers noted, someone who buys a home today and holds it for seven years can expect to pay 44 percent less than someone who rents the same house.
The comparison of the returns on stocks and houses also averages an 87-year period—during which house prices occasionally outpaced stocks for the 13-year holding period.
(Read more: Mortgage rate spike finally hits housing)
With house prices recovering sharply from their deep dive following the 2008 collapse, it's tempting to look for real estate returns to outpace stocks again. But there are signs the easy money in real estate may have already been made.
For one thing, the sharp bounce in home prices over the past year may be cooling off, thanks in part to the impact of higher mortgage rates on buyers. Future demand could also be dampened by tight lending standards, which show little signs of easing.
Rising rates also raise a borrower's monthly payment, which will make it even tougher for future homebuyers to qualify for a loan, according to Ed Stansfield, a housing economist at Capital Economics.
(Read more: Taking your calls now: Obama sells housing agenda via Zillow)
"There is the risk that credit constraints become a more significant brake on the housing recovery," he wrote in a recent note to clients.
For buyers who qualify, they're finding a rapidly shrinking pool of distressed sales from foreclosed properties or those sold in advance of a seizure known as a short sale.
Those listings have created some of the housing recovery's biggest bargains. But the pace of fresh loan defaults and new foreclosures continues to fall. The mortgage delinquency rate—borrowers who are at least one payment behind—fell below 7 percent in the second quarter for the first time since 2008.
Rising mortgage rates will also put a damper on the investment return for homebuyers by raising the long-term cost of financing.
Since April, the average rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage has risen a full percentage point, to 4.40 percent as of last week, according to Freddie Mac. On a $100,000 mortgage, that higher rate costs about $80,000—or about $20,000 more than it did five months ago.
As interest rates continue to rise, higher borrowing costs will further erode the return on housing as an investment.
—By CNBC's John W. Schoen. Follow him on Twitter @johnwschoen.


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A BCSC panel determined that PVT, Mitschele and Minor violated securities laws by selling approximately $3.6 million in PVT shares to 272 investors without being registered and without a prospectus. The BCSC panel determined that the exemptions claimed by the respondents were not applicable. At the time of the distributions, Mitschele was president and chief executive officer and Minor a director of PVT, a now-bankrupt parking technology company.
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Smart Ways to Manage Kids' TV, Music, and Web Time
Overall, media use may be bad for kids, but the key is sorting the good stuff from the bad.
The news that television, the Internet, video games, movies, and other media are bad for kids' health shouldn't come as a huge surprise to any parent who has ever heard the phrase "couch potato." But with no less of an authority than the National Institutes of Health weighing in and saying that 80 percent of the studies it reviewed have linked media use to negative health effects, is it time to take drastic action? Torch the remote? Trash Guitar Hero: World Tour? Not so fast.
First, the evidence doesn't find that media use is all bad. I've reported on more than a few of the 173 studies reviewed by this report, and quite a few find just correlations: One, for instance, found that children with ADHD had watched more TV as toddlers. But that doesn't mean that TV-watching caused the ADHD. It could be that children with ADHD are more attracted to the fast editing and visual imagery of video, so watch more than would a child who is happy to spend hours alone with blocks.
Second, the NIH report lumps together television, movies, magazines, music, the Internet, cellphones, and video games. Magazines? Like reading National Geographic for a geography report? Or, heaven forfend, U.S. News, a perennial favorite of high school debate teams? This study doesn't control for how the media is used, which is critical to evaluating its effects.
In lumping together old media and new, the report also glosses over the fact that research on the impact of newer forms of media, such as instant messaging (IM) and Facebook, is still in its infancy. The researchers themselves say they were surprised at how little research has been done on new media impacts. John Cacioppo, a researcher at the University of Chicago whom I interviewed last month about his new book, Loneliness, says that relying on virtual networks for social interaction can be healthful (or not), depending on whether it displaces face-to-face connections and real-world experiences.
The strongest evidence in the new study linked the amount of screen time and obesity, with 73 studies reporting that more media time was linked to greater weight. No surprise there, couch spuds. The simplest solution to that problem is for parents to set limits on screen time: One hour a day for all media is a good place to start—or to aim for.
Media time also correlated strongly with earlier tobacco use—and not, interestingly enough, just when the media showed people smoking. Fourteen articles evaluated sexual behavior, with 93 percent of those finding an association between media exposure and initiating intercourse or other sexual behavior. Diane Levin, coauthor of the new book, So Sexy So Soon , says parents can reduce that impact on their children first by screening content, and also by watching with children and explaining why the parent finds the sexual imagery disturbing or inappropriate. (My interview with Levin is available here.)
Some of the most practical advice for parents I've seen comes from Lisa Guernsey, author of the 2007 book, Into the Minds of Babes. She investigated the data on effects of screen time on preschoolers, and reduced the need-to-know to a "Three C's" test for parents: Content, Context, and your Child. Content is obvious; no Saw V, please. Context refers to the fact that leaving the TV on all day interferes with children's play and with parent-child interaction. Your child? That refers to the truest advice of all: You know best what's appropriate for your offspring.
Here's the link for the new report, The Impact of Media on Child and Adolescent Health, which was sponsored by Common Sense Media, a nonprofit advocacy group.


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Podcasts are audio or video recordings available on the internet. They're like radio shows, except that rather than being broadcast live, they're stored and distributed over the internet. A key feature of podcasts is the ability for listeners or viewers to 'subscribe' and have the recordings delivered directly to their computers. Video podcasts are sometimes called vodcasts.
One of the best things about podcasting is practically anyone with an internet connection can do it. Some of the most popular podcasts are created by people who have no background in mainstream media.
It's relatively easy to create your own podcast, and it doesn't have to cost a lot of money. Check out editing software such as Audacity (for PCs) or Soundflower (for MAC) - they're free and should have all the functions you need. Try visiting the useful forums on Podcast Alley for more in-depth information about software. For step-by-step tips on getting your first podcast made, try these guides:
Creating video podcasts can be more complicated, but with a bit of research even beginners can get involved. Check out these guides to filming, editing and promoting your videos online:
Interviews - Find someone connected with either side of your debate and interview them, either together or separately. Make sure you give each position an equal amount of time and avoid leading questions. After the interviews you can draw your own conclusions and perhaps set up a discussion page or forum so that listeners/viewers can add to the debate.
Document - Use your video or sound recording to document the situation. For example, if you're an environmental campaigner, show viewers the area you are campaigning about and explain why it's so special.
Reportage - Report on an event, such as a protest or meeting. You could film or record speeches and interview participants.
Remember to think about copyright. If you're planning to use any music in your production, you need to either obtain a music licence, use royalty free music or create and perform your own original music. Copyright also extends to material from published sources (such as books) and you should seek permission from the author or publisher to use the material in your podcast.
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1992-93 Annual Report
Norman Golb
The Dead Sea Scrolls Project was established by the Oriental Institute during the months that followed the freeing of the scrolls (autumn 1991). Staffed by the writer and Dr. Michael Wise, Assistant Professor of Aramaic in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, as well as by our graduate research assistant, Anthony Tomasino, the project from the beginning developed in several directions. First and foremost, there was the challenging task of deciphering and translating, from photographs, the manuscripts from Qumran Cave Four that had previously remained unpublished. This fundamental responsibility was undertaken by Dr. Wise with Mr. Tomasino's assistance and, in the earlier stages, that of several other graduate students (these included Deborah Friedrich, Michael Douglas, and David Clemens). These initial efforts have already led to valuable results; see, for instance, R. Eisenman and M. Wise, The Dead Sea Scrolls Uncovered (Dorset, 1992).
Dr. Wise has recently had accepted for publication by Sheffield Academic Press a volume of essays entitled Thunder in Gemini: Essays on Second Temple Judaism. The volume includes discussions of various Dead Sea Scrolls (both Hebrew and Aramaic texts), Aramaic materials from Masada, and Josephus, the Jewish historian who wrote in Greek. He has also had accepted two articles on topics about the Dead Sea Scrolls, one on the Aramaic texts of the apocryphal writing Tobit from Cave Four, and one on an Aramaic magical incantation to be used as protection against disease-causing demons. These articles will appear in the journals Vetus Testamentum and Journal of Biblical Literature, respectively. He has begun research on another book dealing with scrolls that promote physiognomy-the "science" of determining a person's fate or character on the basis of an appraisal of his or her physical characteristics. The scrolls themselves are written in both Hebrew and Aramaic; the comparative materials that promise to shed light on their contents come from various regions and periods and are written in Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, and other languages. In addition, since one of the Dead Sea Scrolls on physiognomy is inscribed in a code, this volume will deal with the cryptic texts among the scrolls in general. Three different cryptic codes are known, two of which have never been broken. Having already deciphered the first cryptic script, Dr. Wise hopes to do the same with the two holdouts in the course of the next year.
Figure 1. The escarpment to the west of Khirbet Qumran, where many of the manuscript-bearing caves are located.
Figure 2. Detail of the Khirbet Qumran tower; note the buttressing ramp of boulders and the fine stonework of the original vertical structure.
The present writer's undertaking has, on the other hand, been to explore the overall problem of identification of the authors of the scrolls and, increasingly, to examine the specifics of the Khirbet Qumran site and the theory that the manuscripts found in the nearby caves were composed by a sect ostensibly living there. The investigation to date has resulted in a book, Who Wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls?, to be published by Macmillan in the winter of 1994. The main conclusion of this study with regard to the archaeology of Khirbet Qumran is that the site itself, given its many telling features, could have been nothing except a fortress strategically guarding the eastern approaches to Jerusalem. Among the features of the site showing military characteristics are its well-buttressed watchtower, the reservoirs capable of supplying water to a troop of eight hundred men over the entire eight months of the dry season, the signs of a battle between the inhabitants and Roman besiegers ca. 70/72 a.d., and the adjacent 1,200 graves having characteristics of a post-battle cemetery. Qumran and Machaerus-the Herodian fortress east of the Dead Sea-are in direct line of sight of each other, and both served as bastions designed to ward off invasions of Judaea from Nabataea and other trans-Jordanian territories.
Figure 3. Aerial view of Khirbet Qumran (view to south); note its commanding position and the impressive complex of building-remnants, walls, and cisterns. The tower is in the foreground.
There are no substantial proofs that Essenes or other Jewish sectarians lived at this site, and the many new cave manuscripts now being transcribed and translated add to the total historical picture of events on the eve of the Roman siege of Jerusalem (70 a.d.). The texts, of great diversity in their ideas, literary styles, and idioms-and written in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek-could only have come from important libraries in Jerusalem, which the Jews desperately sought to hide away, along with treasures and other important possessions, prior to the tightening of the Roman stranglehold on the capitol. The Copper Scroll, found in Cave Three, describes many of these acts of hiding in detail. Future research will hopefully reveal further details of these efforts and of the complexity of social and religious thinking among the Palestinian Jews of that period who wrote the texts deposited in the caves.
Growing out of our work on the project came the idea of an International Conference on the Scrolls, which was held in December 1992 under the aegis of the New York Academy of Sciences and the Oriental Institute. Thirty papers were read at this conference, and it was reported on in detail in the New York Times (see particularly "Science Times" of December 22, 1992) and elsewhere. The conference contributed significantly to a changing public perception of the nature and importance of the scrolls, showing particularly that many of the old ideas about the texts and the Khirbet Qumran site are now being challenged and, in many cases, replaced by new interpretations. The Proceedings of the conference will be published in full by the Academy in 1994. The conference itself, it should be noted, could not have been held without the strong support of the Oriental Institute and its Director, William Sumner, from the very beginning of our efforts to organize it. In the end, what was accomplished was an endorsement of the principle of free and open debate among scholars holding mutually opposing theories and beliefs-a goal vigorously championed not only by the Oriental Institute but by the University of Chicago as a whole from the time of its founding.
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Kicking the canFebruary 09,2013John Boehner, the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, claims to be exasperated.
At some point, Washington has to deal with its spending problem, he said Wednesday. Ive watched them kick this can down the road for 22 years since Ive been here. Ive had enough of it. Its time to act.
Actually, Boehner needs to refresh his memory. During the first decade of his time in Congress, the U.S. government was doing just fine on the fiscal front. In particular, the ratio of federal debt to GDP was a third lower when Bill Clinton left office than it was when he came in. It was only when George W. Bush arrived and squandered the Clinton surplus on tax cuts and unfunded wars that the budget outlook began deteriorating again.
But thats a secondary issue. The key point is this: While its true that we will eventually need some combination of revenue increases and spending cuts to rein in the growth of U.S. government debt, now is very much not the time to act. Given the state were in, it would be irresponsible and destructive not to kick that can down the road.
Start with a basic point: Slashing government spending destroys jobs and causes the economy to shrink.
This really isnt a debatable proposition at this point. The contractionary effects of fiscal austerity have been demonstrated by study after study and overwhelmingly confirmed by recent experience for example, by the severe and continuing slump in Ireland, which was for a while touted as a shining example of responsible policy, or by the way the Cameron governments turn to austerity derailed recovery in Britain.
Even Republicans admit, albeit selectively, that spending cuts hurt employment. Thus John McCain warned this week that the defense cuts scheduled to happen under the budget sequester would cause the loss of 1 million jobs. Its true that Republicans often seem to believe in weaponized Keynesianism, a doctrine under which military spending, and only military spending, creates jobs. But that is, of course, nonsense. By talking about job losses from defense cuts, the GOP has already conceded the principle of the thing.
Still, wont spending cuts (or tax increases) cost jobs whenever they take place, so we might as well bite the bullet now? The answer is no given the state of our economy, this is a uniquely bad time for austerity.
One way to see this is to compare todays economic situation with the environment prevailing during an earlier round of defense cuts: the big winding down of military spending in the late 1980s and early 1990s, following the end of the Cold War. Those spending cuts destroyed jobs, too, with especially severe consequences in places like Southern California that relied heavily on defense contracts. At the national level, however, the effects were softened by monetary policy: The Federal Reserve cut interest rates more or less in tandem with the spending cuts, helping to boost private spending and minimize the overall adverse effect.
Today, by contrast, were still living in the aftermath of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, and the Fed, in its effort to fight the slump, has already cut interest rates as far as it can basically to zero. So the Fed cant blunt the job-destroying effects of spending cuts, which would hit with full force.
The point, again, is that now is very much not the time to act; fiscal austerity should wait until the economy has recovered, and the Fed can once again cushion the impact.
But arent we facing a fiscal crisis? No, not at all. The federal government can borrow more cheaply than at almost any point in history, and medium-term forecasts, like the 10-year projections released Tuesday by the Congressional Budget Office, are distinctly not alarming. Yes, theres a long-term fiscal problem, but its not urgent that we resolve that long-term problem right now. The alleged fiscal crisis exists only in the minds of Beltway insiders.
Still, even if we should put off spending cuts for now, wouldnt it be a good thing if our politicians could simultaneously agree on a long-term fiscal plan? Indeed, it would. It would also be a good thing if we had peace on earth and universal marital fidelity. In the real world, Republican senators are saying that the situation is desperate but not desperate enough to justify even a penny in additional taxes. Do these sound like men ready and willing to reach a grand fiscal bargain?
Realistically, were not going to resolve our long-run fiscal issues any time soon, which is OK not ideal, but nothing terrible will happen if we dont fix everything this year. Meanwhile, we face the imminent threat of severe economic damage from short-term spending cuts.
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